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The 10 kW system will offset approximately 5% of the building energy usage.

Usage data will be put onto Power Studio where it will be possible to see real time data for solar generation, for those who have access to this software.

How to capitalise on this great opportunity

Install more panels to offset 100% of the building energy usage as energy is used only during work hours

Install a real time smart meter. IDC also has no real time main meter because it is connected direct to street supplies and IFS use the Ausgrid meter for information but it is only history up to the previous day (not real time)

Install a Power Studio TV display in the Atrium in a high traffic area so that occupants of the IDC Building can see electricity consummption and production and also compare data retrospectively

Opportunity to use as a good news catalyst to shine a spotlight on the absence of panels elsewhere on campus

Opportunity to engage the staff and students in crowdfunding campaign to raise $10,000 to add a Powerwall 2.0 battery. Especially in spirit of the Staff Giving Week this week. There is huge support on campus for renewable energy adoption

Abstract:Since time immemorial the mining of the earth’s riches has been a universal and necessary function of societies across the world. The situation in Australia has been no different, from the agates of the stone implements of the indigenous peoples through to the sandstone quarries of the First Fleeters, the gold rushes, the miners in general and most recently the huge excavations of the coal miners. The riches have been there for the taking for individual wealth creation and through the taxing with licences and royalties national wealth creation. Also since time immemorial abandonment of the mine when the resource has been exhausted has been the common practice, with the cleanup, the restoration, the reinstatement of the landscape left to the community that has lived in that space premining.With some 50,000 abandoned mines across Australia the impact on these communities is manifold, from an innocuous hole in the ground that can be used for recreation, to disturbed land prone to sinkholes and subsidence, through to the highly dangerous toxic and acidic leachate emitters. Although governments have been quick to set in place the taxing implements related to active mining, it is only in recent decades that rehabilitation requirements have been enshrined in legislation. A derelict mine is one that no longer has an owner, but indeed it is in fact “owned” by the community of that area. That community was associated with that landscape before it was disturbed and lives with the disturbance presently and into the future. Similarly the government has moral ownership of the derelict mine as it had been party to approval, and implantation of the mine through licencing, taxing, and royalty collection.The socio-cultural legacies of abandoned mines are intimately intertwined with the environmental legacies which are often all too visible. Communities endure and the derelict mines whilst inducing solastalgia in the individual generations that lived through the active mine life; offer in some cases opportunities for new use of the landscape and in other cases an enduring environmental hazard. ​